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Northern Alberta waste water pipeline leak fixed: owner says

  ZAMA CITY, Alta. - The owner of a pipeline that leaked a large amount of industrial waste water into a northern Alberta wetland says wildlife in the area doesn't seem to have been affected."There are no visible impacts on wildlife," Marc Douglas, spokesman for Apache Canada Ltd., said Friday.Alberta regulators estimate that 9.5 million litres of waste water were spilled near Zama City in northwestern Alberta. The spill covers 42 hectares with water that contains salt, oil and [Read more]

Repair crews have finished work on the leaky Trans Mountain pipeline: company

  MERRITT, B.C. - Repair crews have finished their work on a small defect in the Trans Mountain pipeline that prompted an oil spill earlier this week.Andy Galarnyk , spokesman for pipeline owner Kinder Morgan Canada, said Friday all the contaminated soil has been removed and the pipeline was expected to be back up to full operation by the end of the day.Galarnyk and the National Energy Board say the total volume of oil spilled was less than about six barrels — or just under 1,000 litres. [Read more]

National Energy Board says Trans Mountain oil leak only six barrels

  MERRITT, B.C. - The National Energy Board says an oil spill that forced the shutdown of the Trans Mountain pipeline near Merritt, B.C., amounted to less than six barrels.That's just under 1,000 litres of oil — a tiny amount compared to the 300,000 barrels the pipeline ships each day, but still enough for environmentalists to highlight their concerns about Kinder Morgan's plans to vastly expand the pipeline's capacity.Board spokeswoman Rebecca Taylor says the board will determine the [Read more]

Police arrest 12 people protesting shale gas activity in New Brunswick

  FREDERICTON - Police in New Brunswick have arrested 12 people who were protesting against shale gas exploration in the Harcourt area, north of Moncton. Cpl. Chantal Farrah of the RCMP says the protesters were disrupting work and traffic on Highway 126. She says the seven men and five women are facing mischief charges. There have been several protests over shale gas recently, with six others being arrested on the same charges over the last two weeks. Opponents of shale gas [Read more]

U.S. crude oil production could reach 10 million barrels per day by 2040

An EIA Report: Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2013. Projected crude oil production in the United States ranges from 6 to 8 million barrels per day (bbl/d) over the next 30 years in the Annual Energy Outlook 2013 (AEO2013) Reference case projection. However, under greater supply assumptions, crude oil production is sustained at a higher level of about 10 million bbl/d between 2020 and 2040 (see chart above). In this higher resource scenario, [Read more]

Mischief charges laid in Bow evacuation

  CALGARY - A 26-year-old man is facing mischief charges after an incident earlier this week that saw Calgary's tallest office tower evacuated.On Tuesday, witnesses at The Bow reported seeing a man wielding a knife, uttering threats and making references to terrorism.But by the time police arrived, he had slipped past security and vanished.Police took no chances and ordered everyone to leave the 58-storey structure by the stairs.Later in the week, police said they had a pretty good idea [Read more]

Kinder Morgan says small leak from Trans Mountain pipeline is contained

  MERRITT, B.C. - A crew was cleaning up a small oil spill Thursday from Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline in British Columbia, where the company plans a controversial expansion through a province where the debate over oil pipelines and the tankers that go with them have played out in the headlines.Initial estimates from the Calgary-based company said 12 barrels, or about 2,000 litres, of light crude leaked before an employee discovered the breach Wednesday about 40 kilometres [Read more]

Moniz says he’ll move fast on natural gas export applications as Canada watches

  WASHINGTON - America's newly minted energy secretary, Ernest Moniz, said Thursday that he hopes to quickly begin assessing more than two dozen outstanding applications to export U.S. liquefied natural gas — a pledge that has implications for Canada if it means a significant uptick in American exports.In his first appearance before Congress since his Senate confirmation hearings in April, Moniz was peppered with questions by the House of Representatives' energy and commerce committee [Read more]

Alberta First Nation says waste water from pipeline spill already killing trees

  ZAMA CITY, Alta. - A First Nation wants answers from a Texas-based oil company after a pipeline spilled 9.5 million litres of industrial waste water in northern Alberta.Dene Tha' leaders are to meet Monday with Apache Canada Ltd. officials in the remote community of Assumption.Sidney Chambaud, a band councillor, said they want more information about what happened and what the company is going to do about it."There are wildlife impacts and water and land impacts," Chambaud said in an [Read more]

Imperial open to collaboration with other British Columbia LNG players

  By Lauren Krugel CALGARY - Imperial Oil is open to working with other players in British Columbia's burgeoning liquefied natural gas scene if it leads to a better project, CEO Rich Kruger said Thursday."We look to manage risks. We look to ensure we have the most profitable projects we can," Kruger told reporters following an investor conference."And if that could include sharing infrastructure, sharing logistics, economies of scale on plants, we'll look at all of those levers that [Read more]